School programs take new tack on fundraising

Wrangell’s extracurricular youth programs will be getting a boost beginning this summer with the help of local stores.

Bobs’ IGA and City Market both will allow shoppers to conveniently donate spare change toward the public schools’ Booster Club activities.

“It’s set up with both stores, where people come in and round up their purchase to the nearest dollar,” explained Wrangell secondary schools principal Bill Schwan. “The stores have both agreed that that money would go toward our booster activity accounts.”

It is a hands-off approach to a fundraising method Schwan, entering his second year h...